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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: caza ?
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On 9/8/05, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
> A question about time: do {cazi}/{caza}/{cazu} make sense?
> {cazaku} seems legal to me but does it really have a meaning? "Middle-length
> time now"?

In principle, it wouldn't make sense, because ca indicates
simultaneity with the reference point, and zi/za/zu indicate
the magnitude of separation from the reference point. 

Since the combinations are grammatical however,  
they can be used to indicate an approximate simultaneity.
For example:
{ca zi} "right about then"
{ca za} "around that time"

> And what about {ca za lenu ...}?

I prefer to use zi/za/zu to tag the magnitude of the 
displacement rather than the reference point, so
{ca za lo mentu be li so'u} could be "around that
time, give or take a few minutes".

mu'o mi'e xorxes